Shaina: his education experiences and how it influenced where he is today
Cara: how Kozol began his career in education- why he is interested in this
Samantha: summaries of his novels
Iain: what Kozol is doing today, how he is contributed today Virginia: What Kozol's opinions are of the school system today, an interview from the Providence Journal
group members: Shaina Fimbel, Cara Brown, Virginia Kreger, Samantha Wagner
Iain McCoy
Biographical Background
http://americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Jonathan_Kozol.ph p
-worked as a low-income teacher in Roxbury (mostly black school)
-liked to submit himself into the environment while writing his books -grew up in Newton Mass
-went to Harvard and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford
-first book about the same premise in Boston school (1967)
http://www.nobles.edu/home/home.asp
-a castle-like building on 187 acres in Dedham, Mass
-23% of students are of color
-only 10 to 15 students in each class
-26 AP courses and 106 electives
-$32,000 tuition
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/research/edu20/moments/1985kozol.html
-comes from a wealthy Jewish home, pressured to become a doctor or lawyer
-Instead, chooses to work at a 'freedom school' (an result of the civil rights movement) he was shocked by the horrible conditions in which children were expected to learn
*almost seems like he feels somewhat guilty for having such a privileged educational experience that he wants to make it up to all of the children who aren't as fortunate as he was (?)
http://districtadministration.ccsct.com//page.cfm?p=1406
-Kozol's opinion on how to integrate schools and diminish segregation: "we need to have urban schools that are so good that they will not be abandoned by white people, and this is impossible without equitable funding. Until we have equitable funding for our urban schools, there's no chance in the world that white people in large numbers are going to return."
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/education/blog/2009/04/jonathan_kozol_on_de_facto_sch.html
-Kozol said that when he began his career in education decades ago, he thought he could effect change; now he says, he's just a witness.
-Kozol says that full-day pre-kindergarten is essential, and holding children back for failure increases their chances of dropping out of high school exponentially
http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/author.jsp?No=30&mcid=2013700&Ntt=2013700&Ntk=P_ContribIDs&Ns=P_PublishDate%7c1&N=0&Pp=50&isrc=b-authorsearch
- Free Schools (1972)
- Children of the Revolution: A Yankee Teacher in the Cuban Schools (1978)
- The Night is Dark and I am Far from Home (1980)
- Prisoners of Silence: Breaking the Bonds of Adult Illiteracy in the United States (1980)
- Children of the Revolution (1980)
- Alternative Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents (1982)
- Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools (1985)
- Illiterate America (1986)
- Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America (1988)
- Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1992)
- On Being a Teacher (1993)
- Amazing Grace (1996)
- Ordinary Resurrections (2000)
- The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Education in the Nation's Schools (2004) - A Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (2005)
- Letters to a Young Teacher (2007)
- Brief Summary: Most of Kozol's books deal with the same topics, as is evident just by reading the titles of his novels. They all touch upon aspects of racism and unjust truths in the educational system. It is also apparent that by further reasearching a little on each book that Kozol also researches the schools he writes about thoroughly before investigating them. Truly Kozol has devoted his life to the bettering of the American Education System and the teachers in it.
I love how ironic it is that Kozol went to an expensive, private school and came from a wealthy family. It doesn't seem justified for him to be making the comments he does about better schools in upper class societies.
Cara: how Kozol began his career in education- why he is interested in this
Samantha: summaries of his novels
Iain: what Kozol is doing today, how he is contributed today
Virginia: What Kozol's opinions are of the school system today, an interview from the Providence Journal
group members: Shaina Fimbel, Cara Brown, Virginia Kreger, Samantha Wagner
Iain McCoy
Biographical Background
http://americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Jonathan_Kozol.ph p
-worked as a low-income teacher in Roxbury (mostly black school)
-liked to submit himself into the environment while writing his books
-grew up in Newton Mass
-went to Harvard and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford
-first book about the same premise in Boston school (1967)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kozol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_and_Greenough_Schoolc
-Noble is a private boarding school
http://www.nobles.edu/home/home.asp
-a castle-like building on 187 acres in Dedham, Mass
-23% of students are of color
-only 10 to 15 students in each class
-26 AP courses and 106 electives
-$32,000 tuition
http://www.facebook.com/pages/jonathan-kozol/48440372455?v=info
-no children (it doesn't look like at least), just a dog
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/research/edu20/moments/1985kozol.html
-comes from a wealthy Jewish home, pressured to become a doctor or lawyer
-Instead, chooses to work at a 'freedom school' (an result of the civil rights movement) he was shocked by the horrible conditions in which children were expected to learn
*almost seems like he feels somewhat guilty for having such a privileged educational experience that he wants to make it up to all of the children who aren't as fortunate as he was (?)
http://districtadministration.ccsct.com//page.cfm?p=1406
-Kozol's opinion on how to integrate schools and diminish segregation: "we need to have urban schools that are so good that they will not be abandoned by white people, and this is impossible without equitable funding. Until we have equitable funding for our urban schools, there's no chance in the world that white people in large numbers are going to return."
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/education/blog/2009/04/jonathan_kozol_on_de_facto_sch.html
-Kozol said that when he began his career in education decades ago, he thought he could effect change; now he says, he's just a witness.
-Kozol says that full-day pre-kindergarten is essential, and holding children back for failure increases their chances of dropping out of high school exponentially
http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/author.jsp?No=30&mcid=2013700&Ntt=2013700&Ntk=P_ContribIDs&Ns=P_PublishDate%7c1&N=0&Pp=50&isrc=b-authorsearch
- Free Schools (1972)
- Children of the Revolution: A Yankee Teacher in the Cuban Schools (1978)
- The Night is Dark and I am Far from Home (1980)
- Prisoners of Silence: Breaking the Bonds of Adult Illiteracy in the United States (1980)
- Children of the Revolution (1980)
- Alternative Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents (1982)
- Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools (1985)
- Illiterate America (1986)
- Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America (1988)
- Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1992)
- On Being a Teacher (1993)
- Amazing Grace (1996)
- Ordinary Resurrections (2000)
- The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Education in the Nation's Schools (2004)
- A Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (2005)
- Letters to a Young Teacher (2007)
- Brief Summary: Most of Kozol's books deal with the same topics, as is evident just by reading the titles of his novels. They all touch upon aspects of racism and unjust truths in the educational system. It is also apparent that by further reasearching a little on each book that Kozol also researches the schools he writes about thoroughly before investigating them. Truly Kozol has devoted his life to the bettering of the American Education System and the teachers in it.
I love how ironic it is that Kozol went to an expensive, private school and came from a wealthy family. It doesn't seem justified for him to be making the comments he does about better schools in upper class societies.